MARIE CURIE

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MARIE CURIE

• a brief biographical sketch by
• Carl J. Wenning

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Marie Sklodowska Curie

• Polish-French Chemist
• Born Warsaw, Poland, November 7, 1867
• Died Haute Savoie, France, July 4, 1934

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Most notable accomplishments

• Called uranium radiation radioactivity
• Confirmed presence of a, b, and g radiations
• Discovered polonium and radium
• Won Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and Chemistry
  in 1911